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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/construction-health-safety-and-welfare-regulations-1996/schedule-9/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1592",
  "legislation_title": "The Construction (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/construction-health-safety-and-welfare-regulations-1996",
  "path": "schedule/9/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The Factories Act 1961 is modified as follows—\n(a) in section 127, sub-section (3) shall cease to have effect;\n(b) in section 176, in sub-section (1)—\n(i) the definition of “building operation” shall be deleted and the following substituted—\n““building operation” and “work of engineering construction” mean “construction work” within the meaning assigned to that phrase by regulation 2(1) of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/3140);”;\n(ii) the definition of “work of engineering construction” is deleted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1961 c. 34."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/494",
      "affecting_title": "The Health and Safety (Enforcing Authority) Regulations 1998"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/2307",
      "affecting_title": "The Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998"
    }
  ],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:41:26.063983+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}